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A camp director who served as a surrogate father to the girls under his care. These are a few of the scores of victims lost ...

Public officials in charge of finding victims of the devastating flooding in Texas pushed away intensifying questions Tuesday ...

The search for missing bodies continues along Texas’ Guadalupe River after catastrophic and deadly flooding killed at least 108 people following a torrential downpour Thursday evening into early ...